Tweet I have been asked by more than a handful of friends and colleagues to write a post on a specific listing in Simi Valley, CA that was recently brought to market by CBRE. I decided to put my thoughts in writing and attempt to explain how exactly I would break this particular deal down [...]
Tweet The image below is from an email blast sent out by a brokerage firm selling a retail property in Southern California. Really, “Cooperating Broker Fee Offered” is your number #1 selling point? I have cropped out the distinguishing portions of the image to protect the identity of the offending brokerage. Last time I checked, [...]
Tweet This morning, CoStar published an article entitled Institutional Investors Throwing Big Money Around Class A Quality Retail Property. The article highlights several recent large transactions that have taken place and interviews guys from CBRE, Marcus & Millichap and Jones Lange LaSalle for opinions. A few of the points/quotes caught my attention and I thought [...]
Tweet Calculated risk put up a post yesterday about a topic that is near and dear to my heart: the Inland Empire commercial real estate market. In summary, the retail vacancy rate continues to rise in the Inland empire. I also thought it was humorous that the primary source for this data was CB Richard [...]
Tweet This is unbelievable. I just got a call a few minutes ago from one of the listing brokers of the property outlined in my post from yesterday. He politely asked that I take down their marketing brochure and was nice enough to state that he is fine with the fact that I posted my [...]